September can't always make a campaign, but the opening month sure can break one. Four weeks into the 2016 college football season, there are disappointments all over the country.

While several are the result of preseason expectations going unmet, a couple of letdowns are strictly based on what a program has—or, perhaps better said, has not—accomplished.

Additionally, a few teams expected to contend for the College Football Playoff are already effectively eliminated from the conversation, and one well-known program's outlook continues to crumble.

But first, we must address a ridiculous trend.

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